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Property request · conditional use permit

Rogers & Sons Enterprises, LLC: allow Bulk Oil/Propane Storage, Commercial with retail sales (15619 & 15631 Northumberland Highway)

  1. Planning Commission hearing (county’s record, Oct 15, p. 1)Oct 15

  2. Board hearing

  3. Board decides

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In plain words

Rogers & Sons Enterprises, LLC, the owner, and NWP Energy, Inc., the applicant, have asked for a Conditional Use Permit to allow Bulk Oil/Propane Storage, Commercial with retail sales.1 The land is zoned B-1, Business General, and sits at 15619 & 15631 Northumberland Highway.1 It is shown as Tax Map Parcels # 27-(1)-269 & 270.1 The Planning Commission has the request on its agenda for October 15, 2026.2

Summarized from the county’s records, October 16.

Where each sentence comes from
  1. “Request by Rogers & Sons Enterprises, LLC, owner, and NWP Energy, Inc., applicant, for a Conditional Use Permit to allow Bulk Oil/Propane Storage, Commercial with retail sales” … “on property zoned B-1, Business General” … “is located at 15619 & 15631 Northumberland Highway” … “The property is shown as Tax Map Parcels # 27-(1)-269 & 270”The matter as the records title it
  2. “Request by Rogers & Sons Enterprises, LLC, owner, and NWP Energy, Inc., applicant, for a Conditional Use Permit”Oct 15, 2026 · Planning Commission · On the agenda

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The official wording

Request by Rogers & Sons Enterprises, LLC, owner, and NWP Energy, Inc., applicant, for a Conditional Use Permit to allow Bulk Oil/Propane Storage, Commercial with retail sales on property zoned B-1, Business General.… Show all

Request by Rogers & Sons Enterprises, LLC, owner, and NWP Energy, Inc., applicant, for a Conditional Use Permit to allow Bulk Oil/Propane Storage, Commercial with retail sales on property zoned B-1, Business General. The property is shown as Tax Map Parcels # 27-(1)-269 & 270 and is located at 15619 & 15631 Northumberland Highway.

Zoning districts here

  • B-1 · Business GeneralWhat the ordinance says it’s for
    “A. It is the purpose of this district to promote light commercial expansion, development, and redevelopment in the existing business centers for mixed commercial and residential uses. B. This district covers these areas of the County intended for the conduct of general business to which the public requires direct and frequent access. This district is not characterized either by constant heavy trucking, other than stocking and delivery of light retail goods, or by any nuisance factors other than occasioned by incidental light and noise of congregation of people and passenger vehicles.”
    Zoning Ordinance § 148-81

Words the law defines

  • Conditional use permit

    Virginia law calls this a special exception, or special use permit:

    “‘Special exception’ means a special use that is a use not permitted in a particular district except by a special use permit granted under the provisions of this chapter and any zoning ordinances adopted herewith.”

    Code of Virginia § 15.2-2201, Chapter 22. Planning, Subdivision of Land and Zoning

What’s happened

  1. Thu15Oct

    Planning Commission

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The records

Gathered from Northumberland County’s agendas, minutes and notices. Checked October 26.

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How a conditional use permit is decided

Some uses of land are allowed in a zoning district only with the Board of Supervisors' permission. An owner asks for that permission with a conditional use permit.

In Northumberland, the Planning Commission holds a public hearing on the request and makes a recommendation, then the Board of Supervisors holds its own public hearing and decides, often with conditions. Each hearing must be advertised in advance.

The law: Va. Code § 15.2-2286 (What a zoning ordinance may provide, including special exceptions and conditional uses); Va. Code § 15.2-2204 (Advertising public hearings). This describes the general process, not this decision.